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Jul
9

How to back up Dropbox automatically – daily, weekly, monthly snapshots

How to back up Dropbox automatically – daily, weekly, monthly snapshots Dropbox is great. Most of the time. It’s great when I need to easily share files with people while working on a project together. It keeps files in sync between multiple computers, and is the only solution I’ve found so far which works seamlessly and instantaneously. If you don’t already use it, I highly recommend it. Dropbox - Online file backup and sharing I’ve recently been...
Aug
18

Another raid5 scare, and how to recover an apparently trashed array

This morning after waking up to lots of thunder and lightning, I got a text message saying my raid5 array had failed. Only this time, 2 of the 3 drives were missing. Since both of those drives were actually mounted via a vblade share (on a different physical machine), I assumed that the other server had freaked out during a power surge. I quickly rebooted the machine to bring back the vblade shares, but...
Mar
8

Final Cut: “Selection contains no media”

Final Cut: “Selection contains no media” I encountered this error while trying to export a video from Final Cut using Compressor. Obviously my sequence did in fact have clips in it, but I didn’t see why this was occurring at first. Somehow, the “in” point had been set to the last frame of the main timeline, so essentially I was trying to export 0 frames. The solution was to clear the in and out points by right clicking on...
Aug
27

Stating the obvious: IE is a pain in the butt

Stating the obvious: IE is a pain in the butt Thank you Brandon K! You just saved me 6 hours apparently: from http://php.net/header Brandon K [ brandonkirsch uses gmail ] 26-Apr-2007 01:04 I just lost six hours of my life trying to use the following method to send a PDF file via PHP to Internet Explorer 6: header('Content-type: application/pdf'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment;...
Mar
4

photoshop freezes on startup

This has happened once before. One day, photoshop decides it doesn’t want to start up. During the loading screen, it just stops on “Reading text global resources.” Luckily, after a short google search, I found this: http://photoshopnews.com/2005/01/07/photoshop-freezes-when-you-start-it-cs-on-mac-win/ Here’s the fix: You need to delete the “New Doc Sizes.psp” file....

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